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Ring of fire: Dance of the warriors (Videotape)

Title
  1. Ring of fire: Dance of the warriors (Videotape)
Published by
  1. c1987.

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Additional authors
  1. Blair, Lorne.
  2. Blair, Lawrence.
  3. Daring, Mason.
Description
  1. 1 cassette. 57 min. : sd. color with b&w sequences NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
  1. Travelogue culled from a ten-year journey through the Indonesian archipelago by the brothers Lawrence and Lorne Blair, who studied its natural environments, history, and ethnic and cultural diversity. Brief glimpses of dance and dance-related rituals, some performed by ethnic groups little known to the west, are seen in their cultural context.
Subject
  1. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Indonesia > Bali (Province)
  2. Legong (Dance)
  3. Mask dances
  4. Dance > Indonesia > Sumba (Island)
  5. Rangda
  6. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > New Guinea
  7. Television > Ring of fire
  8. Shadow shows
  9. Asmat (Indonesian people)
  10. Trance dances
Contents
  1. DANCE CONTENTS: Island of Sumba: Ritual battle on horseback; women's planting song accompanying work movement. -- Irian Jaya (western New Guinea): Various dances of the Asmat people, including ritual dances associated with the carving of poles commemorating dead warriors. -- Bali: Religious procession and offerings in temples; masked dance, including the figure of Rangda; trance dance; shadow play; dance lesson given to a young girl; legong danced by young girls at a temple.
Call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-966
Note
  1. Volume 2 of four programs originally telecast on the PBS Adventure series. A co-production of Blair Brothers Productions Inc. and WGBH/Boston. Distributed as a videotape by Mystic Fire Video, Montauk, New York. Producers: Lawrence and Lorne Blair. Director: Lorne Blair. Photography: Lorne Blair, Richard Gibb, and Zak Saklofsky. Writer: Lawrence Blair.
  2. Music: Mason Daring and the people of Indonesia.
Title
  1. Ring of fire: Dance of the warriors (Videotape)
Imprint
  1. c1987.
Local subject
  1. Television. Ring of fire.
  2. Dance -- Indonesia.
  3. Asmat (Indonesian people)
  4. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- New Guinea.
  5. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
  6. Mask dances.
  7. Trance dances.
  8. Rangda.
  9. Dance -- Indonesia -- Sumba (Island)
  10. Shadow shows.
Added author
  1. Blair, Lorne. Producer. Director. Photographer
  2. Blair, Lawrence. Producer. Author
  3. Daring, Mason. Composer
Research call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-966
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